Tip Top Recordings
EP Review: high jump – 001
Blending jangling, buoyant indie guitars with swirling electronics and pop melodies, high jump’s debut EP 001 showcases some fantastic writing and creative, wonderfully restrained musicianship. Opening with the reverb soaked guitar line of ‘M2K’, the band gradually introduce electronic samples and atmospherics as a punching electronic beat and swelling bass enters. Topped with silky smooth …
Album Review: Jim Wallis – In Huge Gesturing Loops: moving ‘ambient country’ way beyond passive mood music.
Drumming and making ambient soundscapes is not a well populated intersection on the musician directory Venn diagram but Jim Wallis sits comfortably within that quirky enclave. Perhaps best known for his stick wielding in Modern Nature, Still Corners and Psychic Markers, he’s also a producer/mixer/engineer (recent credits include Bryde and Ellie James) plus one of …
Say Psych: Album Review: Japanese Television – EP III
Japanese Television don’t surf, but if they did, it would be on a swirling wave of reverb-drenched organ, garage-rock guitars, hypno-motorik bass and pounding, ritualistic drums. The band formed in 2018 through a shared love of fuzz boxes, Joe Meek and UFOs and together they invented “Space Surf”. Upon discovering it already existed, they reinvented …
Track: Japanese Television – Beecage
On September 4th space surf rockers Japanese Television will release their brand new 5 track EP ‘EP III’ out September 4th via Tip Top Recordings Preferring to work in a cold, dusty, village hall somewhere deep in the wilds of the east British countryside, Japanese Television once again recorded live to an old 8 track machine with …
Say Psych: News: Japanese Television announce new EP III and share new single ‘Beecage’
Japanese Television don’t surf, but if they did, it would be on a swirling wave of reverb-drenched organ, garage-rock guitars, hypno-motorik bass and pounding, ritualistic drums. The band formed in 2018 through a shared love of fuzz boxes, Joe Meek and UFOs and together they invented ‘Space Surf’. Upon discovering it already existed, they reinvented …
Track: Cassels release debut single, Seasick
I got seasick on a school trip once, in what was just about the most embarrassing moment of my school life. I even knew it was coming, I could feel the movement of the vessel we were aboard was rocking back and forth, and as I looked over the edge I could just feel this …